Non Perl user here: why do people love Perl but hate JS? I imagine Perl had a lot more thought put into it (than JS's 10 days), but this kind of implicit conversion sounds like exactly the kind of thing that bites me in the ass constantly in JS land.
(Actually, implicit unquoted strings sound so nightmarish it's comical, but let's do one question at a time...)
I used to think the solution was static typing, but then I found none of the same infuriating bugs in Python, which has dynamic but strong typing, forcing you to be explicit about type conversions.
Edit: I think I've hit the nesting limit, so please reply to parent comment and I will find it.
(Actually, implicit unquoted strings sound so nightmarish it's comical, but let's do one question at a time...)
I used to think the solution was static typing, but then I found none of the same infuriating bugs in Python, which has dynamic but strong typing, forcing you to be explicit about type conversions.
Edit: I think I've hit the nesting limit, so please reply to parent comment and I will find it.